A Coach’s Journey

James Heflin Head Softball Coach, Wheat Ridge High School Wheat Ridge, Colorado 14U and 18U Club Coach 11 years of coaching What was your best worst moment in softball? We were in an ASA 18U Gold Qualifier and had made our way to the semifinal game against a...

Laura Horstkamp Independent Trainer,Softball Sometimes the best way forward is backwards. Laura Horstkamp started her coaching career at the college level. From there, she moved on to high school. Then to travel ball. And now, it’s private lessons and guest...

Brent Treml Baseball Pitching Coach University of the Sciences Philadelphia How did you get your start as a coach? Honestly, it all started as a favor. Back in 2010, my alma mater, Salesianum High School in Wilmington, DE, needed a coach for the freshman baseball...

John Kidwell Head Softball Coach Archbishop Ryan High School Philadelphia As a coach, we all take chances. We move our slumping clean-up hitter to seventh and she knocks it out of the park. We switch our short stop to second and she turns an incredible double play. We...

Guest Speaker Posts

If you can’t explain it ‘simply’ then you don’t understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein This statement holds true in the world of hitting, more today than ever. New ways to measure virtually every aspect of the art of hitting a round ball with a round bat,...

There was a time when the local playground helped shape a generation. There was a freedom to those times, since we could leave our houses on a sunny summer day and meet at the playground for a day-long “game.” There was no adult supervision and the primary goal for...

MYTHS IF YOU DON’T PLAY DIVISION I, YOU HAVEN’T REALLY REACHED YOUR GOAL No. Stop. I am a Division I softball coach. It doesn’t mean I’m a better coach than my colleagues in Division II. It doesn’t mean that my wins and losses are more relevant than theirs, or that...

What I'm looking for in Potential Prospects #1 – Fierce Competitor, Self-Motivated, Self-Disciplined! I want to see someone compete on and off the field, in the batter’s box and in the class room. Someone who works hard on every play, dives, supports their...